I find there is no bait so enticing to the brown rat as a piece of chicken or meat of any kind.
The trappers complain bitterly of it, and spare no pains to kill every one they can come across; but it is not easily to be caught, and only a very cunningly-devised bait will succeed.
It is preyed on now and then by the common Indian roller or jay, and it is very generally used as a bait to catch that bird with bird-lime.
In a pool of the river near our resting place, I caught, within an hour, some dozen good-sized fish: using a bait of kangaroo flesh.
Our sailors used to hang a basket with bait close to the edge of the crater-basin, sunk a few feet in the water, which they would draw out every time full of lobsters.
The ordinary loch trout are taken with similar flies to the sea-trout, but if you want the big ones you must troll either natural bait or the artificial minnow.
Perhaps two or three flights of hooks for spinning natural bait for ferox may prove a useful addition.
The cod fishing was carried on until quite recently (about 1877) by means of long lines with baited hooks, the bait being mostly mussels.
Whilst gathering baithe suddenly spied a mermaid asleep among the rocks.
The bait should again be spread as before, and a few pieces of the cheese should be attached to the paper with gum.
As soon as the bait is gone, a fresh supply should be spread on the paper, and the same operation repeated for several days, until the rats get accustomed to visit the place for their regular rations fearlessly and without suspicion.
It is a good plan to smear parts of the paper with gum-arabic, sprinkling the bait upon it.
Before day," replied the new-comer, glowing with elation, and I grasped the fact that the enemy had taken our bait and I had not betrayed my country.
Let me alone, and such a baitit shall be, Shall take off all suspicion.
That will not be amiss; give it the Boy, Sir, He knows his holes, and how to bait his Spirits.
We put them on our hooks, and they served for bait a long time.
Mackerel will bite at any very small object, almost, that they can see, and sometimes fishermen fasten a small silver coin to their hooks, which will do duty as bait for days.
The only person who held aloof was Cecil, who would not rise to the bait when Raymond tried to exhibit Miss Bowater as a superior intellectual woman.
Has your taste for the fine arte impell'd You to visit a bull-bait or fight?
The Comstocks arose to the bait a bit slowly, but none the less surely.
In Conrad there is no such sweet bait for the fair and sentimental.
May we never lose our Bait when we Fish for compliments.
The charitablebait took, the benefit proved a bumper, and the next morning the church wardens waited upon the wizard to touch the receipts.
But he was a new and zealous recruit on the force and the bait was too inviting; so he decided not to trust them.
In fact, the diligent Sergeant depended upon it for most of his [Greek: kudos] so Dick Stoughton had determined to play upon his keenness in this respect, and use a sign as the bait with which to hook his fish.
Just bait the hook and throw it overboard," replied Sam.
Then he fastened the lines to the stern of the boat, and taking up his position where he could feel to see if there was a bite, he tossed the bait overboard.
At 5 o'clock in the afternoon the busy man leaned back in his office chair, put his feet on the desk and mused aloud: "I wonder what kind of bait Harding used.
I haven't seen a crow-bait since I've been in town.
In the first place, the fear that such an advertisement might seem too much like a baitthrown out to the public, an attempt to compel its attention.
Some girls would have swallowed thebait and never minded the hook.
In thirty-five minutes more we arrived at Semsem, leaving Bait Nejed on the right.
Arrived at Bait Nateef just at sunset, but no luggage had as yet arrived.
We sent on our luggage before us to Jerusalem byBait Unah and Bait Uksa.
There are two villages in the neighbourhood of Jerusalem bearing the name of Bait Sahhoor.
Bait Jirja on the left; then after a good while Bait Hhanoon also on the left.
Bethsura and Bath Zacharias may have easily represented the Arabic or Hebrew form of Bait Sahhoor.
When the wind's in the south, It blows the baitinto the fishes' mouth.
When the wind's in the south The bait goes in their mouth.
The bait took; for the latent spark of superstition, not to say any thing about curiosity, was kindled in the heart of honest John, and there being no wit in the head to counteract it, the portentous hint had its full sway.
Wilson, pushing him out at the door, "that's a better bait than a poor flesher's dram.
Well, as in the meantime your wife is really dead, we might try with this bait to stop the mouth of Onophrius, so that he may leave you out of question altogether when he is put to the rack.
The singular plant, which is shown in this garden, shall be the bait to bring him.
In the meantime Tacks decided to do somebait fishing, so with an old case knife he sat down behind Uncle Peter and began to dig under the rock for worms.
A week or so ago I threw some bait at him just to test him and he didn't even nibble.
At length I set three traps in one night, and going the next morning I found them, all standing, and yet the bait eaten and gone; this was very discouraging.
For this purpose I made snares to hamper them; and I do believe they were more than once taken in them; but my tackle was not good, for I had no wire, and I always found them broken and my bait devoured.
